The duo of Anthony Coleman (Piano) and Brian Chase (Drumset) pairs two distinguished figures of the New York City improvised music scene. Their first performances took place at esteemed venues for celebratory occasions: Issue Project Room (Gowanus location) for a New Year’s party and at The Stone for a benefit event hosted by John Zorn. Since then Brian and Anthony have appeared locally as a duo and in larger ensembles at The Stone, Symphony Space, and h0l0, among more.
ANTHONY COLEMAN
Pianist – Composer Anthony Coleman has been one of the key figures of New York music for nearly four decades. His work bridges the gap between Composition and Improvisation, Uptown and Downtown, and spans a wide range of genres and practices including Free Improvisation, Jazz, Jewish music (of various types), and Contemporary Chamber Music....
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The duo of Anthony Coleman (Piano) and Brian Chase (Drumset) pairs two distinguished figures of the New York City improvised music scene. Their first performances took place at esteemed venues for celebratory occasions: Issue Project Room (Gowanus location) for a New Year’s party and at The Stone for a benefit event hosted by John Zorn. Since then Brian and Anthony have appeared locally as a duo and in larger ensembles at The Stone, Symphony Space, and h0l0, among more.
ANTHONY COLEMAN
Pianist – Composer Anthony Coleman has been one of the key figures of New York music for nearly four decades. His work bridges the gap between Composition and Improvisation, Uptown and Downtown, and spans a wide range of genres and practices including Free Improvisation, Jazz, Jewish music (of various types), and Contemporary Chamber Music.
At the dawn of the 1980s, after earning a Masters Degree in Composition from the Yale School of Music, Coleman immersed himself in New York City’s forward-thinking circle of genre-confounding composers and improvisers that would come to be known as the Downtown Scene. The first two records Coleman played on, Glenn Branca’s Lesson No. 1 and John Zorn’s Archery, are classics of a then-emerging avant garde.
Balancing a powerful sense of structural logic and expressionistic color, Coleman has had a prolific career as a composer. His works have been commissioned by the Concert Artist Guild, the Jerome Foundation, the Ruhrtriennale, the Festival Banlieues Blues, and the Bang on a Can All-Stars, among others. He has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, etc. He has presented his own work at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival (Bosnia), North Sea Jazz Festival (Holland), Saalfelden Festival (Austria), and the Krakow and Vienna Jewish Culture Festivals. Ensembles led by Coleman have recorded extensively for Tzadik and include the trio Sephardic Tinge and Selfhaters Orchestra. He has also toured and recorded with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, Shelley Hirsch, Roy Nathanson, and many others.
Coleman has recorded 15 CDs under his own name, and has played on more than 150. His most recent recordings are You (New World) and The End of Summer (Tzadik). His Damaged by Sunlight (2010) was issued on DVD by the French label La Huit.He has been a member of the faculty of the New England Conservatory since 2006 and has also taught at Bennington College, the Bard MFA program, and the Mannes College of Music.
BRIAN CHASE is a drummer and composer living in Brooklyn. His diverse range of work includes that with Grammy nominated rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the community of the New York experimental music scene, and his solo project Drums & Drones which explores drums in Just Intonation. Performances have taken him across the world to the Sydney Opera House (with Karen O's Stop the Virgens and Nick Zinner's 41 Strings), UK’s Reading and Leeds Festivals (with Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Toronto’s X Avant Festival (with Drums and Drones), and throughout NYC to such notable venues as The Stone, Pioneer Works, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recorded works include several with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the 2018 released Drums and Drones triple album and book, and albums each with improvisors Alan Licht, Jeremiah Cymerman, and Andrea Parkins, among more. Brian held a performance residency at John Zorn's venue The Stone in 2016, and an artist residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2015. For the fall of 2017 Brian was a visiting professor at Bennington College. 2018 saw the launch of Brian’s own record label, Chaikin Records. Away from the drums Brian is a regular practitioner of Ashtanga Yoga.
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